Boot or shoe holding jack



(No Model.)

A.B.JONES.

BOOT AND SHOE HOLDING JAGK.

Patented June 12,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDROS B. JONES, OF SOUTHBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOT OR SHOE HOLDING JACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,169,-dated June 12, 1883.

Application filed March 19,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDROS B. J ONES, of Southborough, county of \Vorcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Boot or Shoe Holding Jacks, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a cheap, efficient, and serviceable jack to hold boots and shoes while their soles are being repaired, the said jack being adjustable to adapt it to boots and shoes of different sizes.

My invention consists in a metal or metal: shod foot-piece having a continuous or unchambered top, and provided with a longi tudinal socket cast or formed therein from the rear of the said foot, so as not to break up or destroy the continuity of the surface of the sole for a nailing-surface combined with an independent heel-piece provided with a tongue adapted to enter the socket in the foot-piece, as will be described. The foot-piece is made detachable from its upright support, and the heel-piece is pivoted on a lever the upper end of which is made adjustable by an adjusting device. The foot-piece being socketed longitudinally from its rear end and closed completely at the sole, affords an unbroken surface on which to clinch nails or fastenings.

Figure 1, in side elevation and partial section, represents a jack embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a partial longitudinal section of the foot and heel pieces, and Fig. 3 a top view of the foot and heel pieces.

The foot-piece A, composed preferably of cast metal, formed as a shell, has a tang, a, to enter a'socket in .the upright or standard B, rising from a plate, 0, (shown as pivoted by a boltD,) and so as to rotate thereon about a bed, E, adapted to be attached in any desired manner to the floor, or to a bench. The footpiece A is provided at its rear edge, under its sole, with alongitudinal socket or chamber, a for the entrance therein of the tongue b extended forward from the heel-piece G, having an ear, jointed at c upon the lever d pivoted at e to a fixed portion, 12 of the plate 0,

the said lever being made movable at its upper end by an adjusting device (shown as ascrew,

7f) the threads of which are fitted into a suitable nut, h or into a tapped hole in the standard B, if the latter is made of iron. The screw h has two washers, 2 3, fast to it.

It will be noticed that the sole 4 of the foot piece A is continuous from its toe to its rear end, 5, and under all adjustments of the heelpiece and tongue I) with relation to the footpiece the sole of the latter will always pre sent a continuous unbroken surface'against which to drive nails, which would not be the case were the foot-piece simply grooved from the face of its sole inward tdmake an opensided channel for the tongue. The foot-piece may be readily changed for one of the desired size, and by adjusting the heel-piece and its lever a shoe or boot of any usual length may be held securely while its sole is being repaired.

This jack is very desirable in shoe-shops where repairs are made, and is especially valuable where tap-soles are being applied by nails,

I claim- 1. The foot-piece having a continuous solcsurface, and provided with a socket extended into the same from its rear end below the solesurface, as described, combined with a heelpiece and tongue, to operate substantially as described.

2. The standard B and detachable foot-piece socketed or chambered longitudinally from its rear'end under the continuous surface of the sole, combined with the lever, the heel-piece provided with a tongue, and with an adjusting device to change the relative positions of the heel and foot pieces toaccommodate the jack to boots and shoes of different sizes, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANDROS B. JONES.

Witnesses G. W. GREGORY, B. J. NoYEs. 

